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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is going to Blake. I didnt go to school in the US and I am so confused.
Do you only take PE for 1 year and you choose the year?
Why are you saying to do health in the summer instead of during the school year?
There is a meeting at Blake next week I think that I am going to go to but I have no clue what my kid should be doing. She is in private now so she doesn't have a clue either.
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Happy to help. My kids don’t go to Blake, but everyone has the same graduation requirements. Kids need to take two semesters of PE (one year) and many of them take it in 9th just to get it out of the way and do an easy class as they transition to high school. Freshmen need to take English (everyone takes honors English), math (if you tell us what math she’s in now we can tell you the next math she should take), a social studies course (different schools do this in different orders so this would be Blake specific), a science course (most take honors Bio) and a foreign language assuming your daughter is likely college bound. That’s 6 courses and she has 7 spots. The other graduation requirements kids need to check off include a year of health, a year of tech, and a year of fine arts (art, music, etc.). So she should ideally pick one of those three areas for her 7th course. The reason a lot of people do health over the summer is that it’s mainly a lot of easy busy work and easy to knock out in the summer so you have room in your schedule to fit other classes you might prefer like engineering pathways, school newspaper or SGA, 4 years of band, double period science lab courses, etc. You’re not able to take PE over the summer and you can’t exactly do orchestra over the summer so that’s why people do health (and sometimes the tech credit).[/quote]
Thank you so much. This was immensely helpful. My kid is taking pre algebra. She’s not great at math but in the faster paced class and gets As. [/quote]

Of course. Her math, in that case, should be honors algebra 1. [/quote]

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